The Top 20 Fortune Companies With Biggest Workforce In The World, 2017

With approximately 2.3 million employees across the globe, Wal-Mart is the world’s number one employer on the Fortune 500 list. Trailing far behind Wal-Mart, China National Petroleum is the number 2 employer on the Fortune 500 list with 1.5 million workers.

China Post Group Corporation is the 3rd biggest employer on the Fortune 500 list with 941,211 employees, followed by State Grid Corporation of China (926,067 employees) and Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology (726,772 employees). The next two biggest employers worldwide are Sinopec and Volkswagen Group.

The U.S. Postal Service is the 8th largest employer, with 400,000 people on its payroll, followed by Compass Group, the UK’s largest food and support services firm, and the Agricultural Bank of China.

Revealed: The Top 20 Fortune Companies With Biggest Workforce in the World, 2017

Walmart, US
Number of employees: 2,300,000

China National Petroleum Corporation, China
Number of employees: 1,512,048

Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj is the CEO and editorial director at CEOWORLD magazine, the leading global business magazine written strictly for CEOs, CFOs, top managers, company directors, investors, senior executives, business leaders, high net worth individuals, and the most globally powerful men and women.